World in film

Welt im Film was a newsreel that was produced after the Second World War by the US and British occupying forces stationed in Germany from May 1945 in the Bavaria Studios in Munich . In the French occupation zone , however, the newsreel Blick in die Welt, produced by France, was preferred in cinemas.

target

The program was intended to promote the reeducation and reorientation of Germans. National Socialist ideology should be replaced by a new understanding of democracy.

The first episodes of Welt im Film were a failure, after which a new editorial team was installed. The British contributed the content of the newsreel and the film material. It consisted primarily of harmless, amusing topics. Politics took a back seat because it was feared that too much “politics” would keep viewers away after the experiences of the war. Funding and equipment came from the United States. The German employees were rewarded with a “warm lunch”.

Handover into German hands

The British withdrew from the program in 1949. The Americans continued it until June 1952, aimed primarily at the target group of US soldiers living in Germany. In 1952 Welt im Film was taken over by the German-run Neue Wochenschau GmbH ; from July 1952 the program was called Welt im Bild .

Web links

• “Welt im Film” (episodes 2 to 369, 1945–1952) on the website of the Federal Archives
• Joachim Paschen: Before the “Tagesschau” there was the “Wochenschau”. (PDF; 6.2 MB) Hamburg as the production site of a lost medium 1950–1977. In: Hamburger Flimmern, No. 17. Film- und Fernsehmuseum Hamburg e. V., November 2010, pp. 24–31 , accessed on May 18, 2020 .